Ex3αERKO male infertility phenotype recapitulates the αERKO male phenotype

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 207, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 281-288

  Goulding, Eugenia H ^a   Hewitt, Sylvia C ^a   Nakamura, Noriko ^a   Hamilton, Katherine ^a   Korach, Kenneth S ^a   Eddy, Edward M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MALE INFERTILITY; MATING SYSTEM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RETE TESTIS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS WEIGHT;

17-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ANIMALS; EPIDIDYMIS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; EXONS; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; INFERTILITY, MALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHENOTYPE; PROGESTERONE; RETE TESTIS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 78650074685     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: 14796805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/JOE-10-0290     Document Type: Article

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